Investigation And Research On Network Investment Fraud Cases

China is in an important time of economic and social development transformation in recent years.Not satisfied with high risk and low return of traditional investment and financial management,some people,who are eager to look for profits in short time,have began to follow the trend of Internet finance and participate in network investment.Supervision of policies and regulations not in time,and the weak risk awareness of the people,giving criminals chance to renovate e-payment and upgrade criminal measures based on network,leading to intensive outbreak of investment fraud.According to the data statistics from 2016 to 2019 in a row,online investment fraud has become one of the fraud methods with the largest number of reports and the most severe loss per capita,which is also one of the cases that the public security departments have been focusing on.From the aspect of the current forms of crime,online investment fraud has characteristics such as gang crime,corporate operation style,hidden criminal measures,large number of criminal cases,complex criminal forms,wide geographical distribution of the victim groups,serious crime harm,etc.;it has a development trend that closely related to the current real-time hot spots and online dating fraud.From the aspect of criminal measures,the crime of online investment fraud can be divided into four stages mainly,which are "social media account daily operation","attracting fans","fans relationship strengthened" and "unfollow".Each stage is closely linked each other to lure investors into the fraud trap step by step.At present,the public security departments are faced with many difficulties in investigating such cases,such as the difficulty in active discovering crimes,the difficulty in identifying suspects,the difficulty in verifying cases,the difficulty in collecting evidence and so on.Therefore,the public security departments should improve the ability of investigation and combat from four aspects: expanding the sources of clues,analyzing the case comprehensively,using technical means to confirm the position of criminal suspects and improving the work of evidence collection.Regarding to expanding the sources of clues,it should be relied on QQ,WeChat,Post Bar,forum and others,and expand the criminal clues through multiple channels,such as secret forces of the Internet,cases link and connection with each other etc.;in the aspect of comprehensive analysis of the case,case investigation should be depended on the help of capital flow and information flow,conducting in-depth information study and judgment,finding out the capital flow direction,organization structure of criminal gangs and working responsibility of each criminal;when confirming the location of the criminal suspect,it should be combined with network security,technical investigation,criminal investigation and other forces to quickly confirm location of the criminal suspect through IP address,MAC address and network traces;in the aspect of improving the evidence collection work,the mechanism of early intervention from court and procuratorate should be established and strengthen the cooperation with network companies,so as to improve the evidence collection ability of investigators.